Mounting for brake gears



March 23 1926.

S. J. STRID MOUNTING FOR BRAKE SEARS Filed Dec. 11, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Elven or: vEN JuLius 5min E 'WW 521m Mmh 23 1926. 1,577,771

' S. J. STRlD MOUNTING FOR BRAKE GEARS Filed DGC- 11. 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 lverh Sven Julius SVlcZ TTY Patented Mar. 23, 1926.

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1,577,77l PATENT QFFHCE.A

ILLINOIS.

MOUNTING EUR BRAKE GEARS.

Application mea recenter 11, 1925; serial no. vente.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, SVEN JULIUs S'rnm, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of lllinois, United States of America, have invented a new and useful lmprovement in a Mounting for Brake Gears, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same.

My present invention relates to a means for mounting the gearing which may be employed on a. railway car for operating the hand-brake, and it has particular reference V to the manner of installing the gearing on the underframe structure of a specific design.

The primary object in view is to provide a mounting for the brake gearing t-hat is sturdy in structure so that it will withstandv the jerks and impacts incident the movement, coupling and switching of railwaycars of the freight type.

ln the specific underfraine on which the gearing is installed there is an oblique brace extending from the central portion of the endv sill outwardly towards and secured to a side-sill at a distance from the end-sill or to a transverse member such as the body-bolster or the like. I have provided a supporting plate for the gear housing` that is connected to and extends between the brace and the end-sill so that the housing` is strengthened against the force exerted incident to an application of the brakes. This, together with the securing of the forward portion or outward of the housing to the' lower flange of the channeled end-sill, provides a very rigid construction and prevents any displacement of the housing, while at the same time affords devicel that is simple, is readily installed, and is economical to make.

l prefer to carry out my invention and to accomplish the divers objects thereof inl substantially the manner hereinafter fully described and as more particularly pointed out in the claims, reference being here made to the accompanying drawings that form a part of this specification.

In the drawings Figure l is a top plan of a fragmentary portion of a. railway car underframe showing the application of my invention thereto.

Figure 2 is a front end elevation of the structure shown in Figure l.

Figure 3 is a longitudinal side elevation of the gear housing and its mounting structure with portions of the underfraine in sec-4 tion.

Figure e is a schematic plan of a fragment of an underframe.

The drawings are in a sense schematic for the purpose of illustrating the principles of my invention and they disclose a typical or preferred embodiment of my improvements. Similar reference characters are employed throughout the drawings vto designate like parts wherever they appear.

The underframe comprises among other elements a suitable center-sill 5, parallel side-sills 6 (one of which is illustrated) and at the ends thereof is a transversely disposed end-sill 7. This end-sill is formed from a channel beam and is positioned with its flanges projecting horizontally in an outward direction. A reinforcing bracket in the form of an irregularly shaped horizontal plate 8 is positioned diagonally in the corner formed by the juncture of the centersill with the end-sill, and the ends of the bracket comprise upstanding iianges 9 of the plate that are positioned against the vertical portions or webs of the end and centersills and are riveted or otherwise securedA thereto. Extending rearwardly and obliquely outwardly from this corner bracket is a strut or brace l0 that consists of a channel beam positioned with its web horizontal and its side flanges disposed pendent so that the forward end of the web may extend under the corner bracket and be riveted thereto and the opposite end of the brace, which terminates adjacent the side-sill 6 may be connected to this last-named element for the purpose of reinforcing the end portion of the underframe and thereby distributing a portion of the thrust and jerk of the drawbars of the couplers -to the side-sill.

ln mounting my gearing on the aforesaid underframe I take advantage of the herein described construction by placing` the gearhousing at one side of the center-sill and underneath the end-sill. I provide a plate l1 having rip-standing flanges 12 that are secured respectively to an adjacent flange of the oblique brace l0 and the rear face of the web of the end-sill. This plate 1l extends obliquely from the end-sill and its lower surface is flush with the under surface of the end-sill as will be seen by reference to igure 3 of the drawings so as to provide a flat surface to which the gear housing niay be attached.

The gearing is contained with a housing consisting of a suitable shaped top and bottoin casting 13 and 14 respectively the former of' which has a flat upper plate having lateral bolt or rivet lugs 15 that are positioned underneath the lower flange of the end-sill and are secured to it so that the housing is extended upon each side of the sill. The rear portion of the top casting is of somewhat tapered outline and is disposed flat against the underside of the plate 11 to which it is secured by rivets or in any other suitable inanner, so that the housing is prevented from tilting when the pull of the brake chain or rod is operated to apply the brake.

wWhat l claiin is 1. Means for inounting a brake gear coinprising the combination with a car under franie having a corner bracket connecting adjacent longitudinal and transverse sills, an oblique brace secured at one end to said bracket and at its opposite end connected to another member of the underfranie, of a plate extending from said brace to a transverse elenient at the end of the underfraine, and a gear housing secured to said transverse element and having a portion extended back of said element and secured to said plate. l

2. Means for mounting a brake gear coinprising the combination with a. car underfranie having a corner bracket connecting adjacent longitudinal and transverse sill, an oblique brace secured at one end of said brace and connected at its opposite end to another member of the underfraine spaced from the end ot' the car, of a plate disposed transverse to said brace and secured at one end thereto, and at its opposite end secured to a sill at the end of the car, and a gear housing secured at its Aouter portion to an end sill of the car and having a portion extended back of said sill and secured to said plate.

3. Means for mounting a brake gear coniprising the combination with a car under traine having a corner bracketconnecting the center-sill and end-sill, an oblique brace secured at one end to said bracket and at its opposite end connected to reinote portion of the underfraine of a plate having lateral flanges at its'ends that are secured respectively to said brace andthe end sill, and a gear housing secured to and extended under said end sill and having a rear portion connected to said plate.

4. lrleans for mounting a brake-gearcoinprising the combination with a car underfraine including a center-sill, a side sill, a channel-beam end-sill connecting the ends of said sills, a corner bracket connecting the center-sill and end-sill, and an oblique angle nietal brace extending from said bracket outwardly towards and connected to the sidesill, of a plate having lateral flanges at its ends one of said flanges secured to a flange of said brace and the other flange secured to the web of said end-sill, and a gear housing secured to one of the flanges of the endsill and extended inwardly past said sill and secured to said plate.

5. Means for mounting a brake gear coinprising the combination with a car undertranie including a center-sill, a side sill, a channel-beam end-sill connecting the ends of said sills, a corner bracket connecting the center-sill and end-sill, and an oblique angleinet-al brace extending from said bracket outwardly toward and connected to the sidesill, of an obliquely disposed plate arranged in a plane intersecting the plane of said oblique brace and having lateral flanges at its ends that are secured respectively to a flange of said brace and the web of said end-sill, and a gear housing the upper portion of which is disposed against and secured to the bottoni flange of' th end-sill, said housing extending inwardly of the underf'raine and secured to the underside of said plate.

.6. Means for mounting a brake gear coniprising the combination with Ya car under traine including a center-sill, a side sill, a channel-beam end-sill connecting the ends of said sills, a corner bracket connecting the center-sill and end-sill, and an oblique anglenietal brace extending froin said bracket outwardly toward and connected to the sidesill, of an oblique disposed plate having upstanding flanges at its ends the forward flange secured to the web of the end-sill and the opposite flange secured to a flange of said brace, said plate extending inwardly frein the end-sill in the saine horizontal plane with the bottoin flange of the end-sill, and a gear housing the upper portion of which is positioned against the bottoni surface of said plate and the bottoin flange of the end sill so as to extend upon 'both sides of the end-sill, the forward portion of said housing secured to the bottoni flange of the end-sill and the inner portion of the housing secured to said plate.

Signed at Chicago, in the county of Cook, and State of Illinois, this twenty-sixth day of October, 1925.

SVEN JULIUS STRD. 

